Season Premiere! Live show! (Weather conditions permitting)
Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026 – 6 pm – Powerhouse Arts Center, 413 S. 14th Street, Oxford, MS
FREE Admission! Come early! Bring pals!
Doors: 5:30 pm – Frosty Refreshments
Show: 6 pm
Guests:
Author: Julian Sancton – Neptune’s Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire (Crown). True story of a sunken Spanish galleon off the coast of Colombia with over $1 billion in gold and silver—and one man’s obsessive quest to find it.
Music: The Great Dying – Will Griffin – Mississippi Delta songwriter: Truck Stop
Music: Nubia Yasin – Memphis poet/songwriter/ beat maker – Latest single: Slightly Sacred
Hosts: Jim Dees with Paul Tate and the Yalobushwhacker Big Band feat. the Thacker Horns and guest vocalist, Mary Frances Massey!
Airtimes:
Thursday, Feb. 5 – 6 pm (CT) WUMS 92.1 University of Mississippi
Wednesday, Feb. 11 – 10 pm (ET) WUTC 88.1 FM Chattanooga, TN
Thursday, Feb. 12 – 8 am (CT) WYXR 91.7 FM Memphis, TN.
Saturday, Feb. 13
5 pm (CT) Mississippi Public Broadcasting
9 pm (CT) Alabama Public Radio
Sunday, Feb. 14
3 pm (ET) WUOT | 91.9 FM, Knoxville
2 pm (MT) KNCE 93.5 | Taos, New Mexico
6 pm (CT) Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Archived here: Thacker Mountain Radio Hour – WYXR | 91.7 FM | MEMPHIS
Julian Sancton is the author of Neptune’s Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire (Crown).
The book is the true story of a Spanish galleon that sunk off the coast of Colombia with over $1 billion in gold and silver—and one man’s obsessive quest to find it.
A thrilling adventure, Neptune’s Fortune takes readers from battles on the high seas to the sun-soaked shores that nurtured history’s most notorious treasure hunters.
Julian Sancton is the New York Times bestselling author of Madhouse at the End of the Earth and a senior features editor at The Hollywood Reporter. His work has appeared in Vanity Fair, National Geographic, Esquire, The New Yorker, and GQ, among other publications. He has reported from every continent, including Antarctica, and lives in Larchmont, New York.
“… technically complex [and] nail-biting . . . [Neptune’s Fortune] is a rollicking historical mystery and a beguiling human drama rolled into one.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
“… researched meticulously and told exceptionally well.”—Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author of The Wide Wide Sea
Will Griffith, known musically as The Great Dying, is a Mississippi Delta born, singer-songwriter residing in Oxford, MS.
The Great Dying blends dark country with punk and alternative rock influences.
His new album, A Constant Goodbye (Dial Back Sound) mixes heartfelt ballads with high-energy rockers and features the single, “Truck Stop.”
The band’s previous album was Bloody Noses & Roses.
Nubia Yasin is a poet, filmmaker, and fine artist based in Memphis, Tennessee. She anchors her work around Black femininity, Black family structures, Black children, and the Cult of True Womanhood.
Her sound, crafted in partnership with IMAKEMADBEATS (acclaimed underground hip hop producer, CEO of UNAPOLOGETIC) is a unique blend of eclectic influences, pulling from such disparate artists as Sade and Morrissey.
Her releases include the single, Slightly Sacred.
She can also be heard on Fine Line (with fellow Memphian Rachel Maxann) from the album, Stuntarious, Vol. 5.
Much of Yasin’s work is autobiographical. In addition to her personal practice, Nubia Yasin serves as Chief Storyteller of TONE, a Memphis based Black Fine Arts non-profit dedicated to uplifting the Black community through the Black artist.
